peavey for metal?

im currently looking for some new bass amps, i was looking online at peavey amps. and i thought that the BAM210 combo looked nice, it gives out 350 watts i think. well i was thinking about trying to find a music store that had one of these. but what i want to know before i do is, are peavey amps good if you are going to be in a heavy ass or death metal band?

Peavey amps should be fine for pretty much any style of music, what I would make sure of is that you don't short change yourself on wattage.

Metal by default has loud, distorted guitars and usually a fairly hard hitting drumer (as I'm sure you know). I play in a thrash band myself and while 350 watts sounds like alot compared to the 100 watts that are common with guitarists it really dosen't give adequite headroom in my experience.

Drummer: depending on the day either a DW 7 piece maple set or a 6 piece Tama Starclassic Maple Custom set. Zildjian Z custom cymbals.

....I had originally bought an Ampeg B2 Combo with 1x15 (200 watts at 8 ohms, 350 watts at 4ohms) and got totally burried in the mix.

I then stepped up to a Carvin R1000 stack, I figured 1000 watts will blow these guys away I'll only need to be on like 1.5.........wrong again, the wattage wasn't really enough to give me adequite headroom so while I could get plenty loud with the master volume on 5 or so, the amp constantly wanted to clip and fart and just sound altogether bad.

Finally I got fed up and decided I wasn't going to make the same mistake again and bought an Ampeg preamp, and an Ampeg SVT810E cab, but most important of all I got a QSC RMX2450, which briged mono into my cab gives me 2400 watts. Now I have plenty of headroom and life is peachy.

Sorry for the long post (if you even bothered to read it this far) but I didn't want you to have to go through the same headache as I did.